I like Naked Capitalism. It is a 'news' aggregator type sight with daily links on several categories. I actually find the comments section the best.I'm not sure if you would classify them as left or right leaning - they seem to just point out all the BS going on in the world and then let the commentators go at it. Give it a try.
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What’s your favorite "News" website?
by Wonderment innews in general are supposed to be unbiased.
but given how commercial and political interests get their tentacles around them, finding a fully unbiased news website is not so easy.. here in america some would rather trust bbc or reuters than they do cnn or fox news.
any favorites?.
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Material such as the film at the end of this years convention confirms that I was right to take my kids out the religion
by jambon1 init’s quite affirming to see the horrific material that they’re serving up at the convention this year.
aside from blatant homophobia, the scenes at the end of the convention that are discussed on another thread stoop to new levels of fear mongering.
it seems to occur to nobody inside the organisation that this kind of material could trigger fear, deprsssion, anxiety, stress.
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Given the accuracy of their past predictions, I still think I would go with option B: run and hide. Even David (their favorite go to guy) ran and hid in the mountains when Saul was after him and pretended to be crazy another time when dealing with the Philistines. It was well done though. I wonder if my wife will even mention it to me...
Wouldn't 2 or 3 guys with baseball bats be enough? Why need any military when they are just going to stand around waiting for Jesus to show up with his bow?
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Refusing to Report time in field ministry
by Whynot inwhat do you think would happen if i verbally refuse to report my time?
it's been several months since i turned in my time and i think the elder got tired of asking me lol.
frankly, i think it's stupid that jws are required to do this.
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It wasn't clear (to me) from your original post if you are still going out in service and not reporting or just not going out. I assumed just not reporting. I know it used to drive the elders crazy when they knew I had gone out (they worked with me) but I didn't turn in a Field Service report.
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Refusing to Report time in field ministry
by Whynot inwhat do you think would happen if i verbally refuse to report my time?
it's been several months since i turned in my time and i think the elder got tired of asking me lol.
frankly, i think it's stupid that jws are required to do this.
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Just send in a report with some reasonable made-up time if that gives you some room to breath. I got busted for that a few times while I was still in.
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W5 Investigation
by Christian Gutierrez inhey guys!
i just want you guys to know that today is a really great day.
there are so many jehovah's witnesses that saw this documentary and were disgusted by watchtowers policy.
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Loved the report. I have decided that if I get invited to the memorial this year, I would agree on one condition - that she agrees to watch this entire report with me.
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Memorial.. To go or not to go
by Emily1987 inso, as some of you will know myself and my husband are in the process of fading.
haven't been to a meeting since beginning of 2017. .
we weren't planning on going to the memorial, but last week my mother broke down and said that we have to go to the memorial even if it's the only meeting i go to this year.
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Didn't go last year and got blasted. A couple of weeks ago, she apologized for the the things she said. I did not get an invite so far this year.
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Help Elders poking nose in
by Formerbrother inwhat can i do when elders want to poke their nose in?.
they want to have another chat with me and my wife, but we dont want to, it just gets us down..
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Great advice given. You might need to practice this a bit. Stand in front of a mirror and repeat the following phrase: Thanks but no thanks. I'll give you a call when we think that might be useful.
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Life is a bag of Sh^t
by JRK inhappy st. paddy's day.. that being said, life is a bag of shit.. so please give me some sort of positivity in this post.. i wish i could get it from whom i would like it from, but that is a bullshit dream.. life sucks then you die!.
jk.
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Do you have any animals (dogs, cats, chickens, pigs, etc)? No matter how bad I am feeling, they always manage to lift my mood up a notch or two. Walking in the forest also seems to do the trick. Hang in there. -
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I found a silver NWT at a very small library.
by blownaway inmy wife and i went to war eagle ar saturday.
there is a small library.
its about 18 inches x 18 inches.
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@carla: ok, my bad. It is good that you agree people should be able to access some books at the public library that you would not allow in your personal library.
What if one of your (perhaps hypothectical teenage) children came home from the library with a copy of 'Mein Kampf' having heard about it in history class. Would you allow him/her to read it? Would you want to discuss what they thought about it?
What if they wanted to read the Koran? Would you allow it? What if they wanted to read the 'bible'?
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I found a silver NWT at a very small library.
by blownaway inmy wife and i went to war eagle ar saturday.
there is a small library.
its about 18 inches x 18 inches.
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Sorry carla, I don't get your approach to 'Mein Kampf'. Are you suggesting that it should not be available to read? While I might not agree with the conclusions of the author, I would at least appreciate the freedom to read it for myself and draw my own conclusions. What about the Koran?